http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket team and now the coach of Afghanistan did not join victory celebrations when his side thrashed Pakistan out of semi-final held at the Asian Games.
The former cricket hero had predicted before the match that the team he had trained would outdo the pre-favourite Pakistani side at the semi-final. However, when his prediction came to life, it brought both happiness and emotional shock for the guy as seeing
Pakistan lose could never be a pleasurable sight for him.
Giving his comments over the performance of his boys Rashid said, “I am happy that my players have lived up to my expectations and reached the final of the T20 competition but as a Pakistani I am also feeling the same way like other Pakistanis on seeing
the Pakistan team lose the semi-final.” The ex Pakistani cricketer at the national level stated that being a Pakistani player it had always been difficult for him to see his side losing any of the matches.
Nevertheless, so far proved an impressive trainer, Rashid also expressed that since now he was a professional coach, his top priority was to ensure that his team was doing well; be it against Pakistan or any other country. He said that he was happy upon
the fact that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sadiq-Mohammad-c87843.
Disclosing the chemistry behind the win of comparatively newer cricket team of Afghanistan against the hard hitting Pakistanis, the former wicket keeper said that his boys were exciting young players who always clicked well as a team. He was of the view
that the training camp they had set at Jalalabad particularly for preparing for the Asian Games had helped a lot in depicting an impressive performance.
The coach for Afghanistan cricket team was also happy upon the acknowledgement of his team’s success at the highest level as the president of the country; http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hamid-c61327 Karzai had himself called up the boys to congratulate them upon their emphatic win and had wished
them good luck for the final.
Appreciating the gesture of Afghan President, Rashid said that such gestures were extremely encouraging in giving the team a winning boost to perform well through better preparations. Concluding his remarks over the success of his team, the best wicket keeper
of his times expressed the hopes that if Afghanistan were given a chance to play Test cricket, the team would rapidly improve its performance and would soon be considered among the top teams of the world.
In the match against Afghanistan, among others, the main factor contributing towards Pakistan’s defeat was that it consisted of a depleted side in the Asian Games. The senior Pakistani cricket team had been busy battling http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 in UAE while the second
string had been on an official tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760. Had there been players from the senior teams to represent their country at the Asian Games, there must have been better results for the green shirts.
However, despite of all these facts Rashid regarded the success of his team as an important step forward to not only reach the cricket final, but also to emerge as a credible and impressive side for the sport.
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